James Hillman wrote depth psychology about imagination, myth, character and the limits of reducing psychological life to diagnosis or family history. The Soul's Code argues that a person's life may be understood through an innate pattern or 'daimon', using biographies to question purely developmental explanations of personality. The Dream and the Underworld treats dreams as images belonging to their own psychological world rather than puzzles to be translated into simple meanings, while Re-Visioning Psychology develops his archetypal approach more broadly. Hillman's prose is essayistic, myth-heavy and often provocative. His work fits archetypal psychology, Jungian studies, mythology and philosophical approaches to the imagination. Read more Less